Thursday, December 9, 2010

Guest Photo of the Day: Mother's little helper

This is what I aspire to: the ability to walk through a market in London and snap a candid portrait, on the fly, that is so beautiful, so perfectly lit and composed, and so full of life and soul. This child has absolutely no barriers between her and the camera--you can just look right into her eyes and get a glimpse of her soul. It's a fantastic shot! How do you suppose the photographer, Pete Zelewski, did it? Did he ask her to pose for him? Or did he just engage her in conversation, ask her to show him the coin she'd collected, and snap the photo before she realized she was being photographed?

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the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie, — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed. From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.